Nuala

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Nuala: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Nuala: Recorded every year since 1964, its highest recorded position is #71, and it stood at #431 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
88times a registrar ranked it
61years from first to last
#71highest recorded position
20groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Nuala's record

Ranked every year since 1964, without a single year missing. Names by continuity of record

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1072
1997	#874
1998	#1259
1999	#1473
2000	#1475
2001	#1170
2002	#1530
2003	#1325
2004	#1043
2005	#1295
2006	#1201
2007	#987
2008	#1247
2009	#1248
2010	#1520
2011	#989
2012	#1210
2013	#1360
2014	#1272
2015	#860
2016	#1057
2017	#949
2018	#1111
2019	#1119
2020	#1100
2021	#860
2022	#910
2023	#1108
2024	#1036

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 44 of the 61 years from 1964 to 2024.

In 2024: #431 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1036 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1964–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1964
First recorded at #90 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1964 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1964–2024
Highest recorded position: #71 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1965 (recorded 1964–2024).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1036 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Nuala appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 44 years beginning in 1964, and has registered 1,352 births with the name.

Nuala across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Nuala's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#90 (1964)	#71 (1965)	#898 (2024)	44 of 61	1,352 (1964–2024)	91 (1965)
England and Wales · Girls	#1072 (1996)	#860 (2015)	#1036 (2024)	29 of 29	746 (1996–2024)	43 (2015)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#161 (1997)	#161 (1997)	#424 (2019)	14 of 23	65 (1997–2019)	12 (1997)

Nuala by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Nuala in Republic of Ireland · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960sbusiest	446	6 of 10	74
1970s	580	10 of 10	58
1980s	231	10 of 10	23
1990s	66	10 of 10	7
2000s	4	1 of 10	4
2010s	10	3 of 10	3
2020s	15	4 of 10	4

Across Republic of Ireland · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 74 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1968 and 1969, when recorded births fell by 27, from 90 to 63.

See the names Republic of Irelandhas recorded the most births with →

Nuala appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #71 in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

Nuala's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#1036	33	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1108	30	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#860	41	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1100	30	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1119	30	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1111	31	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#949	39	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1057	33	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#860	43	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1272	26	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1360	24	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1210	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#989	35	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1520	19	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1248	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1247	23	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#987	30	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1201	22	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1295	18	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1043	23	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1325	16	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1530	12	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1170	17	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1475	12	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1473	12	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1259	15	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#874	25	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1072	18	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#424	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#370	4	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#451	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#419	3	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#318	4	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2002	Northern Ireland	female	#252	5	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#230	6	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	female	#348	3	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#167	10	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#161	12	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#634	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#758	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#750	4	High	Verified
1999	Republic of Ireland	female	#392	5	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	female	#425	4	High	Verified
1997	Republic of Ireland	female	#496	4	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	female	#356	7	High	Verified
1995	Republic of Ireland	female	#310	9	High	Verified
1994	Republic of Ireland	female	#374	6	High	Verified
1993	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	10	High	Verified
1992	Republic of Ireland	female	#523	3	High	Verified
1991	Republic of Ireland	female	#300	10	High	Verified
1990	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	8	High	Verified
1989	Republic of Ireland	female	#250	14	High	Verified
1988	Republic of Ireland	female	#252	15	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	female	#296	11	High	Verified
1986	Republic of Ireland	female	#220	18	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	female	#227	19	High	Verified
1984	Republic of Ireland	female	#242	16	High	Verified
1983	Republic of Ireland	female	#187	28	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	female	#185	30	High	Verified
1981	Republic of Ireland	female	#180	36	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	female	#159	44	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	female	#153	47	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	female	#147	46	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	female	#164	41	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#167	36	High	Verified
1975	Republic of Ireland	female	#145	50	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	female	#129	59	High	Verified
1973	Republic of Ireland	female	#112	77	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	female	#118	67	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#100	86	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	female	#110	71	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	female	#111	63	High	Verified
1968	Republic of Ireland	female	#78	90	High	Verified
1967	Republic of Ireland	female	#100	66	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#93	68	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#71	91	High	Verified
1964	Republic of Ireland	female	#90	68	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#431	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1964 and 2024, ranked in 61 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #71, first reached in 1965.

It held a top-100 place in 6 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 91 births, registered in Republic of Ireland in 1965.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 60 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Magdalena · #71, 64y
Dara · #72, 62y
Katarzyna · #69, 60y
Sonya · #69, 60y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Caitriona · #70, 56y
Dara · #72, 62y
Finbarr · #70, 62y
Philomena · #72, 61y

Nuala was ranked #71 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1965. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Nuala and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Nuala without appearing here.

Nuala moved ahead of

Jenny Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1100 and #1100 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #860 and #2499.
Suzanne Compare
In 2010 they stood at #1520 and #1389 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #989 and #2025.
Tracey Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1530 and #1530 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #1325 and #2191.
Marie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1108 and #1087 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1036 and #1894.

Moved ahead of Nuala

Riley Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1170 and #1439 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #1530 and #822.
Millie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #392 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #88.
Layla Compare
In 2007 they stood at #392 and #528 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #106.
Sofia Compare
In 2007 they stood at #392 and #439 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2008 that had become #750 and #119.

Moved the opposite way to Nuala

Ada Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 while Ada went from #372 to #50.
Aoife Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 while Aoife went from #206 to #45.
Clodagh Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 while Clodagh went from #149 to #42.
Elsie Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 while Elsie went from #327 to #73.

Moved the same way as Nuala

Alison Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 and Alison from #146 to #275.
Amanda Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 and Amanda from #118 to #631.
Angela Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 and Angela from #24 to #372.
Ann Compare
Between 1964 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Girls, Nuala went from #90 to #898 and Ann from #4 to #556.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1964 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #71 in Republic of Ireland in 1965. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Nuala

Nuala at a glance

What stands out in Nuala's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Nuala across 3 official records

Nuala by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Nuala appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Nuala at a glance

What stands out in Nuala's record

Nuala across 3 official records

Nuala by decade in Republic of Ireland · Girls

Nuala appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Nuala

Nuala and the names beside it

Nuala moved ahead of

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